New season of The Handmaid's Tale on Hulu

This show is still on??

This is the final season

You're living it in 2025. And it very well may be the final season. For America.

I can't watch this show anymore. 5 years ago it was pure fiction to me. Now I think Margaret Atwood may be a prophet.

I read the book in college in the 90's and that was enough for me with his first term. Y'all have fun tho.

For me it mostly the 'sunk cost fallacy', after watching it this far I may as well see it through to the end.

Oh boy, can't wait to see more of that hideous Scientologist actress' face looking angrily at the camera.

The first episode started slow but it picked up and by the 3rd episode things are moving

Under his eye.

Fucking Serena Joy

I will admit that I have rewatched the angry mob train scene three times because in real life I would love for MAGAt politicians and supporters to encounter something like that.

On the third episode.

Yea, glad it’s the last season as it’s not very good. There was only one bright spot (I won’t give it away) - the rest seems like a bad WWII movie made in the 1950s.

The first three seasons were brilliant.

The best part was Aunt Lydia clutching her pearls at seeing Janine

Elisabeth Moss has gotten fat.

My roommate was watching it. Just hearing Elizabeth Moss' voice was enough to make me want to jump into a toxic vat of acid.

R14 the actor playing Nick has gotten old. I suppose it fits for the character and the burdens he carries in that environment.

Those who think the actor playing Nick is hot are retarded.

It’s been 8 years (take in account filming, 9 years) since it first premiered.

Yea, people age in (almost) 10:years. I know Covid happened and all - but too long past between filming

This shit is STILL on the air?? Once they started building resort communities for tourists and letting “Offred” come to stay there, that was my cue it had become ridiculous. All they need to do now is setup a daring stunt where Offred gets her kid back if she can jump over a shark tank with a 1950’s motorcycle.

Will the final hundred or so viewers be forced to watch up-close scenes of Elizabeth Moss’s face? I think she actually requires it in every episode. The episode always ends with a long awkward focus on her face. You know, because her eyes are so piercing and intriguing! 🙄

Nick is hot. Great body.

Definitely more sexual tension between June and Nick. Luke is kind of a doofus but he really seems to love June and accepted the baby as his own.

I like this season better than I liked some of the previous seasons. It has a lot of surprises and twists and turns; there's at least one big scene each episode. Even some comedy with Joseph and his new wife.

Max Minghella (Nick) is sexy.

I'm hanging in there. I've watched the first two episodes of season six. I've watched all five seasons so far (by my nails for the last two) and I feel I should l hang in there for this last one. Hopefully the ones not directed by Ms. Moss will be better.

Is anyone still watching? I’m struggling. From what it was to what it has become.

Nope not watching.

Wasn't the authour very outspoken about trans women being women too? I wonder how they weave that one in.

[quote]The first three seasons were brilliant.

The first season was brilliant.

How much time has supposedly elapsed since June had her baby (Nicole) through current season? That kid is no more than 2!

R14, she had given birth a few months before shooting.

Still feel that way R22?

I’ve given up halfway during episode 4 when June, Moira and Luke were screeching at each other for an interminable amount of time. I will give The Testaments a go when it’s released though. It’s in production now.

Seasons 1 and 2 were great. The storylines were fantastic (though a little more violent than necessary). The episodes were full of suspense, and nearly all ended on cliffhangers. The cinematography was beautiful.

Season 3 was very boring and felt repetitive, though the last two scenes of the finale were great.

The next few seasons are a blur. The Canada stuff has been boring.

This final season has been better than the last few. The first two episodes had some shocking scenes and twists. Then there were some episodes of filler. This past week had a shocking cliffhanger.. But I'm confused? Where is New Bethlehem? Why is Serena allowed to live there? Is Cmdr Lawrence supposed to be a good person or a bad person? I can't tell.

A 1964 Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Consider Her Ways went even further. A woman (Barbara Barrie) wakes to a dystopian future. When a virus that was supposed to control the rat population kills all men, society is restructured to four classes: Doctors, Mothers, Servitors, and Workers. The woman then travels back to the "normal" and tries to prevent the disaster from happening. There is an ironic ending. The title is a reference to a quote in the Bible.

At this point, the only reason to watch it is a sunk-cost fallacy.

I like D'Arcy Carden as the aunt who is helping the revolution. But, I have a feeling that her character is going to die. Probably Aunt Lydia will kill her.

Clearly most of you haven’t bothered to read The Testaments.

I hope Ann Dowd’s quivering lowering lip isn’t indicative of illness. She seems a very lovely person who is adored by everybody. That look of love the actress playing Janine gave her in the most recent episode looked genuine.

This show was so campy from the start. I’m amazed people took it seriously.

[quote]This show was so campy from the start. I’m amazed people took it seriously.

The first season, which coincided with the start of the first Trump administration, was well timed enough to hit a collective nerve, not only in the U.S. but across the West generally. It did a good job of conveying a sense of absolute dread and menace in a post-revolution, post-democratic society, especially in those first handful of episodes. The deep red dresses and white bonnets from the series may appear campy now since it became common to wear them at various protests from #MeToo to Roe v. Wade, but the imagery was perfect for the show. Margaret Atwood, the book's author, was closely involved with the series.

I heard this went off the rails after the second season

I've enjoyed it so far. It's a bit slow but they are spending time with character development and it's truly amazing

I watched the first episode of this current season, so far. I keep telling myself to go back to it, but I get exhausted thinking about it. Maybe in the summer I will. The first ep of the final season did just not grab me.

The handmaids should have just taken the cake with them, nobody would have noticed.

I hope we don't have to see Nick's fugly wife again.

Episode 9 was amazing.

But I will be satisfied never having to look at Elisabeth Moss's fat ugly face in closeup after the series finale next week.

[quote]the series finale next week

Which is when I'll start watching.

May the jet open.

There are some at Reddit who think Ann Dowd’s quivering lower lip is an “acting.” choice. Bless their souls.

I mostly liked the series finale. So glad that one particular character got a happy ending.

Salted caramel.

Glad they went with psalm 121

A chair, a table, a lamp.

Eh, I maybe in the minority, but I liked the ending. Kinda wrapped up everything

Even though it was a dream, it was nice to see Alma and the others

I also liked the dream sequence because it showed the lives they could have had if Gilead hadn't it happened.

Elisabeth Moss is still hideous looking.

Yuck.

Can we discuss how asinine the decision was to bring June's mother and oft-abandoned daughter to join them in Boston, only for June and Luke to leave again? WTF why didn't they just stay in Alaska where they'd be safe? Sure, let's put them in harms way in an area that could still be an active war zone.

I swear the plot holes and decisions in this series are more unbelievable than Moss's religion.

R59 premature to criticize that development given it’s not been stated how The Testaments’ storylines will unfold.

Does it follow Atwood’s sequel?

[Quote] Elisabeth Moss is still hideous looking.

I heard her described as Jolie laid, like when Angelina has sex.

R61 Atwood is involved, but there will be changes from the book.

They've confirmed that instead of taking place 15 years after Handmaids Tale ends (in the book) it will take place 3-4 years later.

R64 that makes me wonder how long this story arc will be.

R64 I wonder how large of a time jump there will be given how old Agnes and Daisy are in The Testaments.